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Count down to Christmas has started in earnest

Shipping deadlines fast approaching. Remember we are in Perth Western Australia and the distance to the East is more than London to Moscow so it takes a little longer and demand for shipping is only going up as we get to Christmas.

Sending within Australia

Send Parcel Post by Saturday 12 December 2020.

Send Express Post by Saturday 19 December 2020.

Want to give something different for Christmas?

What about a Viet-Coffee gift pack. We have a wide selection of packs you can choose from in our Accessories section of the store. Or our Unique Specialty Tea Selection from Hatvala with a recently expanded range. Or make your own!

Choose from

Gout de Paris 250g with 2 Espresso Phin and 2 iced coffee spoons

Taste of Vietnam - All you need to make Vietnamese coffee

Viet-Coffee Affogato pack - Vietnamese Western fusion dessert

We can ship your parcel overseas with our special discount rates. Ask for a quote specifying the size of your order

If you put “Christmas present” in the notes section of your order we can leave out the invoice for you and send a card on your behalf.

Or for the person who has everything how about a donation of their behalf to Blue Lotus. The gift that gives twice – a tax deductable receipt and the knowledge that you are going to make a difference especially now with the major flooding in Central Vietnam.  

Get 50% more Special still on for Metrang MC1 ground coffee and TNI Gourmet Blend – must mention Buy 2 get one free in your order details. Special ends Midnight (WST) end November

Article Below sourced from VietNam News

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Hoàng Hiệp and Will Mackereth, supply chain director at Nestlé Vietnam, present awards to the winners at the NESCAFÉ Plan Farmer Contest held during the 2019 Việt Nam Coffee Day celebrations in Gia Lai Province. — Photo courtesy of Nestlé

Vietnams aging coffee plantations have been identified as an opportunity to improve yields thought better plan stock, and changed farming practices.

Drivers for improved production have come on top of global coffee prices falling 40% since 2010.

Lương Văn Tự, chairman of the Việt Nam Coffee and Cocoa Association, said the 2019-20 crop is likely to see output fall by 20 per cent.

There have been a number of Industry led programs to improve viability and profitability for coffee farmers. NESCAFE has a worldwide program designed to address falling production.

“So far, the project has distributed 36 million high-yield and diseases-resistant coffee saplings to farmers and helped rejuvenate over 36,000ha of aged coffee areas in the Central Highlands.

It has also provided training to over 230,000 coffee famers in best practices to improve bean quality and ensure sustainable farming and helped over 21,000 farmers achieve 4C international certification and increase their incomes by 30 per cent.

The project also helps protect the environment by reducing water use by 40 per cent and fertiliser and pesticide use by over 20 per cent.”

Will Mackereth, supply chain director at Nestlé Vietnam,  said “Nestle has been promoting  intercropping with other crops like pepper, avocado and durian. This means that they can be more resilient so that if the coffee prices are low as they are today they still have a good income from other product streams, but also that the cost of coffee production in Việt Nam is extremely efficient and extremely competitive.

VietNam News identifies Nguyễn Đức Huề, a farmer in Ia Hrung Commune, Ia Grai District, Gia Lai Province, who participated in NESCAFÉ Plan in 2014, saying his coffee productivity has increased sharply to five tonnes per hectare on average thanks intercropping his 4ha coffee plantation with avocado in 2016 and now harvests the fruits.

Tự said: “The productivity of coffee farms participating in the project is 4.5-5 tonnes per hectare, much higher than the country’s average of 2.6 tonnes, he said.

“The project contributes greatly to the coffee sector’s target of replacing 130,000 hectare of ageing coffee out of a total coffee area of 650,000 hectare.”

The competition attracted the participation of 90 outstanding coffee farmers from Đắk Lắk, Đắk Nông, Gia Lai and Lâm Đồng.

Mackereth said: “2020 will mark the 10th anniversary of NESCAFÉ Plan Vietnam and we expect many more such activities.”

Nestlé is the biggest buyer of coffee in Việt Nam, buying US$700 million worth a year. — VNS